6 miles!! I hadn’t run, like at all, in about a month. So. Cross train, check, easy, done. Then Monday came and I made it 2.2 miles before I felt some irritation in my IT band. 2.2, good enough for the first run. Tuesday – pouring I mean POURING down cold rain. Treadmill time, no a/c at the gym. IT still not feeling great 1.4 miles walk/run – mostly walk. Decided to push Wednesday’s workout to Thursday morning to let my hip get back to normal. And then just skipped the Friday workout to be well rested (in theory) for the 6 miler Saturday.

Saturday.

I have learned my lesson. If you stop, just stop, running all together. You cannot just pick up where you left off and go. Ugh. The run was not fun. Ended up dropping back a couple pace groups to a slower run/walk group. We’ll see how it goes and hopefully I can move back up. Eventually.

]]>https://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/spring-training/feed/0hbaker1130Overtimehttps://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/overtime/
https://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/overtime/#respondSat, 29 Sep 2012 02:38:46 +0000http://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/?p=21Continue reading →]]>I realized early this morning when I got up to go work out that I was about to work 24 hours in a 36 hour period… So I went back to bed.

10 hours of work done, have 11 hours til the 14 hours shift starts.

24 hours on my feet. 24 hours in running shoes.

Be back on Sunday with some fun stuff

]]>https://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/overtime/feed/0hbaker1130one of Those dayshttps://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/14/
https://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/14/#respondThu, 27 Sep 2012 03:10:24 +0000http://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/?p=14Continue reading →]]>Ever have those days where nothing goes right?

That was today. Work was awful. {I don’t write about the specifics of my job, but it’s retail. it’s 24 hours, it’s healthcare..} Walk in and the overnight staff is working on something, few minutes later it gets passed off to me … after working on it for a couple minutes is comes to my attention it’s the wrong person. FAIL. Fix it, move on. Next thing I get the overnight has had a conversation about already with the patient. Frustration conversation ensues.. I’m pretty sure I do not look or sound like the 60 year old man the lady talked to.10 minutes of dragging everything I need to know out of her later I believe the exact words were “Give me what’s free.”

Umm.. not free, 100% covered?
Whatever.

All morning was like that. You know that thought you have, the one that says your coworkers are morons. Yeah I’m pretty sure it’s true for me. Or maybe they’re just really lazy. They couldn’t be this clueless still could they?

So. At lunch I got to call 911 and have the paramedics come get a slowlazy employee when she had a panic attack. She might have been told me speed up her speed a few time today. No, not by me. I just think it. A lot.

Now she gets a week off work. Guess who gets to work more?
Yeah
Overtime though.. so I guess I’ll take it.

5 o’clock finally came and I ran out of there. And home to 2 little dogs… 3 walks and an hour on the couch later it’s gym time. Mile and half run.. was planning for 2 but I’ll take it.

]]>https://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/14/feed/0hbaker1130lazy dayhttps://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/lazy-day/
https://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/lazy-day/#respondMon, 24 Sep 2012 20:34:03 +0000http://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/?p=11Continue reading →]]>It’s my last day off of this long weekend, 4 days off plus 2 days spent in a training class away from the store has felt like a little mini-vacation. Got up took the dogs out then crawled back in bed for another couple hours and spent some time just being lazy around the house before finally getting dressed and going to workout.

This workout was brutal. All the weights and reps went up on me and my legs are still feeling a little tired from that 4 mile uphill run on Saturday. Usually I feel like I’m going to throw up at the end of the workout, today that feeling started on the second exercise, right about the time I tried to leg press 180 pounds and couldn’t move it, dropped the weight to 140 and did my reps. I’ll get to the 180 eventually .. today just wasn’t the day. I had plans to get in a 2 mile run today too, but decided to give my legs another days rest and run tomorrow.

Now it’s time for a little relaxing before going to the RANGERS game tonight!!

]]>https://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/lazy-day/feed/0hbaker1130emmy emmy .. who are youhttps://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/emmy-emmy-who-are-you/
https://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/emmy-emmy-who-are-you/#respondMon, 24 Sep 2012 02:55:41 +0000http://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/?p=4Continue reading →]]>Today was a rare day of no running shoes.. Nope not even for 5 min. Flip flops all the way. After yesterdays tough 4 mile run uphill, today was a mostly lazy day other than a little kayaking.

I’m here on the couch watching the Emmy’s and realizing I have never seen an episode of most of these shows. All the clips I’ve seen look pretty good, but the chances of me actually watching the show… not very good, I’ll forget about it and if I don’t DVR something I won’t watch it.

Anyhow, thought I’d have some fun with some of the nominees (totally stole this idea) with a few emmy themed snacks for those nominated (and some not)

(I have not tried any of these recipes.. just went to pinterest and copied links from my pins in all cases expect the mealball sub – that one was found on google)

Did you watch the Emmy’s? What did you snack on while watching?

Goodnight!

]]>https://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/emmy-emmy-who-are-you/feed/0hbaker1130kayakingHello world!https://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/hello-world/
https://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/hello-world/#respondMon, 24 Sep 2012 01:50:01 +0000http://inrunningshoes.wordpress.com/?p=1Continue reading →]]>Welcome to WordPress.com! This is your very first post. Click the Edit link to modify or delete it, or start a new post. If you like, use this post to tell readers why you started this blog and what you plan to do with it.